Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

H LATEST NEWS

The Illinois Central road is said to have
given a Buffalo company the contract to build
4 steel bridge at Cairo for $3,50O,OO O
On account of the interstate
law, 4 box factory at swanzey, New Hamp-
shire, has suspended operations.
The interstate commission has suspended
for soventy-fvc days the operation of the
fourth section of the law on the Northern and
Southern Pacific, Atchison, and st. Louis and
San Francisco roads.
Harmony cotton mills at Cohoes, n. T.,
has shut down, throwing out six hundred
men, because they attempted to dictate VINO
should be employed. The Pittsburgh nail
manufacturer reduced the card rate from
s2a.70 to So a5, which will necessarily lower
wages about 5 per cent
The national council of Germany mas
voted $50, O90 francs toward the construction
of the Simplon railway tunnel through the
Alps.
Senator ~Stockbridge has subscribed &c.,
600 to the y. NJ @ A building fund of Kali
amaZoo.
An eastern paper suggests as a political
issue the annexation of Canada. But the pro-
ject will never be popular i'll this country.
Mexico is too remote from our financial CEN
ters, the facilities for reaching it are imper-
feet, and Canada is the only country to which
| the American defaulter can withdraw in a few
hours time. Its convenience and accessibility
make it desirable that it should retain the po-
litical status that now enables it to supply a
refuge for retired American financiers.
The funeral Of Alex. Mitchell took place
at Milwaukee the 10Th, with imposing cere-
monies. He is said to have left nearly $40,-
00U,O0O worth of property.
ID. A. J. Grant, the noted Boston biga-
mist, who was in Jail awaiting trial for rob
bling and deserting a Cambridge lady after
marrying her, is dead.
The cutter Thistle, which is to come to
America to compete for Americas cup, was
launched at London the Goth.
Montreal dispatches report one-third of
the city under water and more than ten thous.
and operatives thrown out of employment
Provisions are being distributed by tho cor
poration.
Judge Davis has declared tho opinion of
the Court of Claims in the Chickasaw case, in
which the Indians claim over sG0o,0J0 with
interest. by reason of improper d!sburse-
ments of Chickasaw funds held in trust by the
United States. The court reaches the con
clusion that the Indians should have credit on
their accounts for $240,1CS.
Tho Bell Telephone Company filed a de-
murrer to the Governments suit to nullify its
patents.
Freight shipments eastward from Chicago
have decreased one-sixtL under the Inter
State law.
sBilly the Goat, q notorious pickpocket
known to the police throughout the United
States, was captured at Minneapolis through
a photograph in the rogues' gallery.
-Zell., Swabacher & Co., distillers of Peoria
ILL.,, have Sc tied their case with the Govern.
ment. in which they are charged with break
ing the revenue law IN matters of refill
barrels. SAID affair cost them nearly $4,000
in railroad accident on the Atchiso1
branch of the Rock Island road, near Horton
Kan, Secretary of State Allen was badly in
jurcd, Gov. Riddle was severely hurt ant
Judge Sewers, of the Iowa Supreme Court
was bruised about the head. The train wen
off a twenty-five foot embankment.
"A $4,000 loss was occasioned at Atlantic
N. j., by the burning Of the Ocean Parlor and
Park baths.